Is This the Second Coming of the Cio?

Public sector unions like AFSCME have always given the kind of prominent role to politics and political action that also characterized the CIO during its movement years, from 1935 to 1948-integrating bargaining and politics with organizing new members in a way that most private sector unions had lon...

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Published in:New labor forum 2005-07, Vol.14 (2), p.12-18
Main Author: Metzgar, Jack
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American federation of labor and Congress of industrial organizations
Chief information officers
Clothing industry
Collective bargaining
Industrial unions
Labor
Labor at the Crossroads
Labor history
Labor movements
Labor unions
Mining
Partnerships
Political debate
Politics
Public sector
Union membership
Union organizing
Union security clauses
United States
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Summary:Public sector unions like AFSCME have always given the kind of prominent role to politics and political action that also characterized the CIO during its movement years, from 1935 to 1948-integrating bargaining and politics with organizing new members in a way that most private sector unions had long abandoned by 1994, when Newt Gingrich woke up a nearly moribund AFL-CIO.
ISSN:1095-7960
1557-2978
DOI:10.1080/1095760590934661